SSH keygen and login problem

[Abhilash abhi]

Hi,

Why cant u use "ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub user at IPaddress"(Destination)..
It will automatically copy the public key to ur destination. And u are
creating the key as root or normal user ?

Thanks,



On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Johan Booysen
<johan at matrixsolutions.co.uk>wrote:

> Might be worth checking the permissions on the .ssh directory and on the
> authorized_keys file.  That's bitten me before, and should be:
>
> drwx------      .ssh
> -rw-r--r--      authorized_keys
>
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> Sent: 12 January 2011 11:27
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> Subject: SSH keygen and login problem
>
>  Hi,,
>
> For my file transfer script i want to use scp without password. Here
> is nearly what i have done:
> 1- I logined to my Checkpoint (which is Redhat based and the one who
> is source) with my personal user and gave expert command  to have root
> permissons.
> 2. Changed directory to /root/.ssh and gave ssh-keygen -t dsa and
> created the key pairs.
> 3 I copied yhe public key to my home folder at the remote server  like
>
> scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
> myuser at remoteserver:/home/myuser.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> 4. Then i copied this authorized_keys to the /root/.ssh.
> 5 then tried to send a sample file from my Checkpoint box to remote
> server
> with scp but it requested me to enter a password.
>
> how can i fix this ? then ill adapt my scirpt to this
> regards.
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Regards,
Abhilash